Stroller Walking and Traffic

[Anonymous]

We also have bike lights on our stroller, but I tend to walk against traffic. I also tend to walk the inside of curves rather than the outside. I figure if someone isnt paying attention they are more likely to hit the outside than the inside, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This afternoon I took my DC out for a walk. We live in a residential neighborhood without sidewalks. The neigborhood has light traffic and we encountered about 8 cars within our 45 minute walk. I have always walked with the flow of traffic. My reasoning being that I walk in broad daylight and their aren't many cars. If we had more traffic I'd walk against the traffic pattern but I don't. So today an older gentleman stopped me and pointed out I should walk against the traffic for safety. So what say you DCUM?

He is correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - I walk with the flow of traffic on my residential street because the neighborhood has wide streets and low traffic. The few times we did walk on the "major road" we walked against the traffic pattern in order to get to the busy street. The major road has sidewalks but you have to walk on a street without sidewalks in order to get there.

That's not a very good explanation. Is there any reason you'd choose to walk with the traffic, when you might as well walk against it? Low traffic is still traffic. What makes you want to walk with it instead of against it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MY 2c?

1. Pretty rude of someone to lecture you on the way you are walking--I'd be annoyed.

2. Write your city council and advocate for sidewalks!!

If someone drove towards me on the wrong side of the street, I'd let them know however I could, by honking, yelling, flashing my high beams etc . . . . The OP was on the wrong side of the street. By doing so she put herself, her child, and the drivers at risk. Why wouldn't they let her know?